Search Results: Pioneering Women from Paul Haynes Rare Books

First edition. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. London. New York. 1923. Octavo. xxiii, 344pp. Original purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Lower edges untrimmed. Edges a little spotted. Lightly toned to endpapers. Slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, and corners. Original dust wrapper tipped in to fep.With an introduction and preface by Sir Oliver Lodge. An analysis of the evidence of psychical phenomena recorded in the Bible.Mabel St Clair Stobart (1862-1954) British sufffragist, aid worker, writer. The first woman to reach the rank of Major in any army, she served on the Balkan Front where she commanded the Serbian Relief Fund's Front Line Field Hospital. Chair of the British College of Psychic Science. Founder and Chair of the Spiritualist Community, with Arthur Conan Doyle as President. Chair of the Spiritualist Community Council. Council of the World Congress of Faiths. An extraordinary woman.

W. Spurrell & Son. Carmarthen. n.d. [1913]. First edition. Royal 8vo. viii, 269pp. Title in red. Photo frontis., numerous photo illus. and drawings. Historiated initials. Corrigenda tipped in. Original cloth, bumped, a little rubbing to extremities. Teg. Occasional spotting, and to foredge. With local ephemera loosely inserted.
Marianne Robertson Spencer (1861-1924)

William Jackson. Joiner and Steele. London. 1932. 8vo. 67pp. Woodcut frontis. Original cloth, gilt lettering to spine and cover. Teg. Signed limited edition 377/550. Joiner and Steele insert tipped in, as called for. Bookplate of Peter M. Jeavons to fep. Foreword by Geoffrey West.

Stella Benson (1892-1933) novelist, poet, and travel writer. She lived in China from 1920, whilst continuing to travel widely. She died in Hongay Indo-China in 1933.

First edition. Longman. London. 1971. Octavo. xiii, (1), 336pp. 29 monochrome illustrations. Map. Original cloth, gilt to spine. Original protected unclipped dust wrapper, two small closed tears to top edge, minor rubbing to top corner, slight fading to spine. Bookplate of Clare Tritton McLaren (Clare McLaren Throckmorton of Coughton Court) to ffep.Frederica Dorothy Violet Carrington (Lady Rose) (1910 - 2002) MBE, FRHS. Leading scholar and writer on the history and culture of Corsica.

Fisher, Son & Co., The Caxton Press, Angel Street, St. Martin's-Le-Grand, London. [1845-47] Two volumes. Quarto. First editions. 128pp. Engraved half title, engraved frontispiece plate, 50 further engraved plates; Engraved half title, engraved frontispiece plate, 47 further engraved plates, 104pp. The 99 plates are by Turner, Stanfield, Prout, Cattermole, Roberts and Allom. Contemporary half maroon morocco, spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt double rule emphasis and gilt lettering. Marbled boards. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Silk bookmarks. Some variable spotting/foxing. A very attractive set.
Provenance: Armorial book plate of Fothergill to fep of each volume.

2 volumes. Royal octavo. Wm. Isbister Limited. London. 1889. Two mounted tissue guarded Woodburytype photo frontispieces, 33 illustrations. xviii, (1), 326pp.; ix, (1), 370pp. Half speckled calf, renewed to spines, marbled boards, gilt lettering, rules and floral and foliar edging. Marbled endpapers. Light shelf wear to edges and rubbing to corners. Light spotting to endpapers. A handsome bright crisp set.
Mary Howitt (1799-1888) Poet, writer, journalist, translator, editor of numerous books. Wife of William, "The Howitts had been all their lives great wanderers; they would journey for weeks or months at a time, chiefly on foot, through England, Wales, or Scotland, and the Continent, and knew intimately and minutely every place they wrote about. Their literary industry was marvellous, as is shown by appended list of books. Mary Howitt's name was attached, either as author, editor, or translator, to 110 works." (Evelyn Noble Armitage) A beautifully written vivid literary autobiography.

Three Volumes. Henry Colburn. London. Volumes I & II first editions 1845; Volume III second edition 1846. Octavo. Title, xvii, (2), 394pp. Hand-coloured frontispiece plate of Lady Hester Stanhope on horseback, folding plan of Lady Hester Stanhope's residence at Joon; Title, vi, (1), 384pp. Engraved frontispiece of her saloon; Title, vii, 319, (1)pp. (Publisher's ads), Engraved frontispiece of Lady Hester Stanhope's residence at Joon on Mount Lebanon. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Spines in six compartments with double gilt rules, leather labels, gilt lettering. Some commensurate shelf wear. Edges sprinkled red. Title page to Volume I partially detached with tear at gutter. Some foxing to the uncoloured plates. Occasional minor spotting, small marks etc. A handsome, crisp, firmly bound set. No inscriptions.These volumes were originally from a Welsh country house library.Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy (1776–1839), traveller, adventurer, explorer, antiquarian. Hostess and… Read More

First edition. Printed for Henry Colburn, British and Foreign Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square. London. 1816. 4to. xiii, bl., (2), 370pp. Folding map, 5 hand coloured tissue guarded plates. Later half calf, spine in six compartments with raised banding, gilt lettering and motifs, marbled boards, new endpapers. Short detachment of tissue guard and title page to base. Very occasional spotting.
Richard Tully was the British Consul at Tripoli from 1783 to 1793, and, according to the preface, these letters were written by his sister; and attributed to his sister-in-law in the second and third editions. The author's identity has always been a mystery: there is no record of a sister, nor of another female family member residing in Tripoli apart from Mr Tully's wife and two daughters. The final entry is dated April 30, 1795, Gibraltar. It reads: "Since you must have had my letters with the journal of Tripoli". Louisa Maria Tully (daughter of Richard Tully) married Alexander Simpson on 19 March… Read More

First edition. Harry N. Abrams. New York. 1983. Large quarto. 224pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Original cloth in vg d/w.Carol Beckwith, the American photographer, and Marion van Offelen, the Belgian anthropologist, met in 1979 in Kenya. For the next two years they lived with the Wodaabe, learning their language and following their migrations, on foot and by camel, to record their nomadic tradition. This extraordinary book is the first to be published about the Wodaabe of sub-Saharan Africa.

First, Limited Edition: Number 527 of 550. Dropmore Press. London. 1947. Royal 8vo. (6), 66, (blank), (1)pp. Printed on a hand press on hand-made laid paper by Portals of Whitchurch, with title and historiated initial of the first page of text in pink and black. Binding by Evans of Croydon: decorative blue cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt inner dentelles. Untrimmed edges, a lovely copy in the original unclipped protected dustwrapper lightly sunned to spine, with spotting to the edges

Printed at the Riverside Press. For Private Distribution. Cambridge, Mass. 1907. 8vo. [xi], 323pp. Frontis., 12 further plates, tissue guarded, 2 folding genealogical tables. Half morocco, marbles boards. Spine in six compartments, each boxed in gilt, gilt lettering and date. Marbled endpapers. Silk bookmark. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Inscribed by the author to Mrs von Mohl to ffep, dated February 1908. 1955 inscription "from Papa". Bookplate of Wanda von Mohl to front pastedown.

Wanda von Mohl (née Countess von der Groeben), (1854-1910) wife of the German Diplomat Ottmar von Mohl.

First edition. Viking Penguin. London. 1986. Small quarto. 144pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Original brown cloth, gilt to spine, in the original dust wrapper. A near fine copy with no inscriptions. Freya Stark (1893-1993) a fearless and indomitable traveller. Her unique collection of photographs range from North Africa to the Levant, South Arabia to Turkey, Persia, Soviet Central Asia, China, the Alps, Himalayas, the gorges of the Tigris, the arid wastes of Central Asia and the lush palm groves of the Wadi Hadhramout, the wilds of Kurdistan. She sought hospitality among Shamar Bedouin, Kashgar herdsmen, Kurdish camel-herders and yurt-dwelling Turkomans. Many of her photographs evoke a world now inaccessible. Her godson Malise Ruthven adds to her writings with a short biography.

First edition. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. London. 1893. Octavo. xi, 300pp. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard (Coming Down From The Monasteries of Meteora), Photo portrait of the author, 21 further engravings from sketches made by Isabel Armstrong within the text. Original pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering. Pages untrimmed, edges darkened. Cloth worn, spine cocked, darkened and faded, corners bumped. Text bright and clean. Spotting to prelims and half title, foxing to the tissue guard, with a little transference to the title page. No inscriptions. Scarce.Isabel Armstrong (b.1848) and her travelling companion Edith Payne "announcing our intention of starting off by ourselves to Greece, the general opinion seemed to be that if we were going out to be murdered ..."

Revised edition. Collins. London. 1974. Large quarto. 87pp. 212 photo plates. Original cloth in vg d/w.In the original cream slipcase, slightly soiled.

First edition. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1962. xxvii, 237pp. 16 plates. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. Edges lightly spotted. A nice copy.Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson (1914-2006) English antiquarian and academic, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquities.